Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

Company Fire Belt is an American science fiction film for the Irwin Allen is responsible for producing, directing and together with Charles Bennett wrote the screenplay. The doomsday film was released in 1961 by 20th Century Fox in the cinema. Walter Pidgeon is the Admiral Harriman Nelson and Robert Sterling to Captain Lee Crane of the submarine Seaview dar. Other actors were Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Michael Ansara and Peter Lorre.

The film was followed by the 110 episodes comprehensive US- American science fiction television series The Seaview - A secret mission. In Germany the film was also titled to burn as the space began in the cinemas. Start in Germany was September 7, 1961 in the United States July 12, 1961.

Action

Admiral Nelson is on the road ignited with his new, self-designed, built and financed, high-tech nuclear research submarine with a submarine Review Commission on board at the North Pole as a Meteoroidenschauer the Van Allen belt to a ring of fire. This leads to the minute rising global warming and threatens to wipe out life on this in a few days. Admiral Nelson leads immediately with his friend Lucius Emery calculations and come to the realization that he can displace the ring of fire up into space with one of its nuclear warheads. This must, however, according to his calculations, will be shot down by the Mariana Trench from point to 14.00 clock of the 29th August. Immediately he makes under a red-colored, the impending apocalypse sky with his boat on the way to a UN crisis meeting in New York. There he presented to the politicians and scientists attending his daring plan. However, these are of the view that the ring of fire would be thrown by a nuclear explosion rather than on the earth into space and the ring of fire would just one day later dissolve, August 30, at a given temperature by itself.

Convinced of his plan, Admiral Nelson rushes back to his boat and does around South America on the way to the Mariana Trench. Time is short. Since he can not reach by radio to the President for a confirmation of his plan, he contrives to the plan to tap the undersea cable from Rio. He sends the captain personally with a religious fanatic from the submarine Review Commission in modern diving equipment to the cable. The two divers are, however, taken there by a large undersea octopus targeted and attacked. All evil spite, they manage a connection to London to produce. The technical details of the viewer is spared. Admiral Nelson takes you from London to experience that Washington DC is no more. The responsibility now presses alone on his shoulders. Due to an act of sabotage by a Commissioner, the boat on the way to saving the world caught even in a minefield. On the liberation of the crew loses the well- beloved, brave sailors "Little Jimmy".

In addition, Admiral Nelson has to realize that his company is threatened by death threats and try out the team. Presence of mind, he leaves the mutinous part of the crew on a aufgefundenenes, translate leaderless become by water shortage ship. This leads one to doubt the actual captain of the submarine to the state of mind of the Admiral. Just as he is forced to refer these to the infirmary, the boat is attacked by other submarines. They want the Admiral to stop the launch of a nuclear missile, and thus to prevent the worst. As evasive maneuvers the Admiral can disappear into the depths of the boat around 1000 meters. There, however, the boat is in danger of being devoured by another giant octopus. With electric shocks can this but sell quickly. Back on the Grid, the other U- boats are gone, but the outdoor temperature increased faster than expected. The hopes of the other scientists that the ring of fire dissolves itself, have vanished into thin air. This reinforces the reputation of Admiral is made with the team again. Shortly before the calculated time of the Mariana Trench is achieved. But now crosses the religious fanatic, the project of the admiral. With an oversized hand grenade he succeeds, the command ansichzureißen. He sees the way of God predetermined and might prevent that the Admiral prevent the impending apocalypse. While the admiral the fanatics involved in discussions, it is possible the captain of fanatics unnoticed to attach a time fuse on one of the nuclear missiles shortly before 14.00 clock. The rocket rises punctual to the second sky. The world of fanatic perishes. The Department makes itself back under a blue sky on the well-deserved trip home.

Success

Unaffected by the mixed reviews out falling, played the tarnished in the American cinema in the June 1961 film until the fall of the same year its production cost of two million dollars with seven million at the box office more than one.

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1961 in film Charles Bennett (screenwriter) Film score Paul Sawtell
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